Hip Gecko
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Hip Gecko
@hipgecko
American Expat. Happy as a gecko on a warm rock.
Prague Katılım Ekim 2008
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@EricLDaugh a "messy" divorce?
sounds more like a "bloody" divorce to me.
sad.
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🚨 NOW: Jaw-dropping tragedy as former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) commits M*RDER-SUIC*DE on his wife at their home amidst a messy divorce
Their son called 911 after midnight. Tragic.
"Justin Fairfax shot and killed his wife Serena and then turned the gun on himself at their home in Annandale, Virginia. Their children, both teens in high school, one boy, one girl, were home at the time. The son called 911 shortly after midnight."
"Chief Davis says the couple had been living together in separate rooms going through a messy divorce."
CHIEF: "We know that recently Mr. Fairfax was served some type of paperwork indicating when he was scheduled to next appear in court for the ongoing divorce proceedings."
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🚨 BOOM: Some American drivers are ECSTATIC for Elon Musk's Tesla semitruck
"Massive windows, the seat is right in the center. It's usually off to the side and they can't reach the buttons they need to."
"10 exterior cameras, obviously these massive screens. They're not inhaling the fumes of a diesel truck. The seat is no longer shaking. All things that are important for a good office or workplace."
"There are a lot of benefits and the drivers tell me they love it." @elonmusk 🔥
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@adcooley @SawyerMerritt once it starts to communicate with other teslas in the lot, it may know where all the best spots are before you pull in
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@SawyerMerritt Would be so great to be able to drag the parking icon to the vicinity of where you want to park…
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Here's my first drive on Tesla FSD V14.3.1. It feels polished vs 14.3 and it my opinion is ready for wide release.
• With 14.3.1, you can now tap on the new "P" parking icon and bring up your different parking options
• Mad Max mode on the highway feels slightly more conservative with top speed (favors low 80s more often), but will now get to the right lanes sooner to prepare for exiting the highway. In this first drive, Mad Max did not go above 83mph, despite no cars around me most of the time. Follow distance is also more comfortable. I like all these things.
• I'm having zero brake stabbing issues on 14.3.1, whereas I had a couple on my first drive with 14.3
• Urban lane selection is better vs 14.3
• Navigation routes and occasional parking alignment still need some work, but that's not a reason to hold back wide release.
It still surprises me how much quicker V14.3 reacts to things. If a car pulls out of a parking spot as you drive by, FSD hits the brakes before you even know what's going on. The 20% better reaction time is definitely noticeable.
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A woman who worked for nearly two years for Rep. Eric Swalwell told the Chronicle she had sexual encounters with him while he was her boss and alleged he twice sexually assaulted her when she was too intoxicated to consent. sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…
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The 𝕏 algorithm is open source and updated frequently, but you do not point to any alleged bias or suggest corrections, choosing instead to leave for platforms that everyone knows have a strong bias for political correctness, which just another way of saying “lies”.
You used to be about freedom and truth, but now you want to destroy freedom of speech and artificially suppress viewpoints that run contrary to the lunatic-left activism that drives your every action.
Shame on you.
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NATO: The Bonus Round
Let’s take a look at Trump’s NATO comments and thought-laundering while we’re at it, because Trump is setting up negotiations with NATO.
The same day Iran is testing the ceasefire (April 8), the same day the Strait is effectively closed — Trump is floating a plan to move US troops out of NATO countries he’s labeled “unhelpful” and into countries he’s calling “supportive.”
The word choices here are not accidental. “Unhelpful.” “Supportive.” Trump is setting up labels for NATO countries.
The Useful/Useless Brand is brilliant. By publicly dividing a group into “those who helped” and “those who didn’t,” Trump is not just rewarding allies.
He’s creating a social compliance structure.
Every NATO country that hasn’t been named as “supportive” is now asking themselves one question: how do we get off the wrong list?
That question is worth more than any formal treaty obligation. Formal obligations can be lawyered around. Social shame and the fear of lost status? That moves people.
Trump’s Greenland callback makes the same move at a higher level. “It all began with Greenland,” he said. The message to every NATO ally: your history with us is being scored. What you did when Greenland came up, what you did during the Iran war — it’s all going in the ledger. And the ledger has consequences.
He called NATO a “paper tiger.” He praised Gulf states — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE — while naming South Korea, Australia, and Japan in the category of countries that didn’t show up.
He is redrawing the alliance map in real time. Not with treaties, but with branding.
Countries that want to stay on the right side of this are going to start moving. That’s the intent.
What to Watch
The next 48 hours will tell you everything about whether this ceasefire holds.
If Iran continues to limit Strait traffic without consequence, they will push further. That’s the logic of a probe — you go until you hit resistance.
Watch whether the White House formally responds to the Strait closure or treats it as a technical issue for mediators.
Watch whether Trump mentions Lebanon or Israel publicly in the context of the ceasefire. If he does, he’s acknowledging Iran’s framing.
If he doesn’t, he’s signaling that the Strait closure is Iran’s problem to solve, not his.
And watch the “supportive vs. unhelpful” NATO language. If European governments start quietly reaching out to Washington, the brand is working.
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Day 1 of the ceasefire. If you've been keeping up with our analysis, nothing that occurred today should have came as a surprise.
Trump is continuuing to run sophisticated persuasion and negotiation moves. But Iran has also come to play.
Let me walk you through each move so you can appreciate the brilliance.
12:01 AM. Trump posts to Truth Social.
At midnight after the ceasefire, while most of America was asleep, Trump made a very deliberate rhetorical choice.
Twelve hours earlier his language was annihilation. “Stone Ages.” Civilization-ending strikes. The hardest possible imagery. Then the ceasefire was reached, and he pivoted to the most optimistic framing imaginable.
“Big money will be made. Iran can start the reconstruction process... this could be the Golden Age of the Middle East!!!”
This is a Future Pace. Future Pacing is the art of painting a future outcome so vividly and with such absolute certainty that the audience doesn’t just imagine it — they begin to emotionally experience it as already happening.
Trump is not debating or persuading them toward a possibility. He's installing the outcome directly into their mind.
Once that future image locks in, their brain automatically starts reverse-engineering reality to make it true.
Trump was also future pacing when he told you that we should consider opening the strait, taking the oil, and making a fortune from it. Remember "GUSHER"?
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@elonmusk @TheRabbitHole When the people don't work, the system won't work.
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My kid's school is a germ factory.
I don't mean that figuratively...
I mean there is a building in Poland where 22 toddlers sneeze on each other for 6 hours a day and then go home and sneeze on their parents.
(Then of course, the irresponsible parents send their kids hacking and wheezing to school anyways...)
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@libsoftiktok attention. objective achieved.
we really don't need to see these things. it's all fake. move on.
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